Our speaker, Prof Maxine Burkett is passionate about the need for ‘climate reparations’. Concerned about the current and potential impacts of climate change on disadvantaged communities and immigration, Maxine poses the question: Will adaptation be peaceful or involve conflict?
Maxine is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. An international expert on the law and policy of climate change, she has presented her work in diverse areas of climate law throughout the United States and in Africa, Asia and Europe, and the Caribbean. Her work has been cited in numerous news and policy outlets, including BBC Radio, the New York Times, and Nature Climate Change.
From 2009-2012, Maxine served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy. Is a board member of The Climate Museum, ELAW, Global Greengrants Fund, and the Blue Planet Foundation. She also serves as is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, the American Law Institute, and as the Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Sea Level Rise Committee.
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